Real Friends Quotes

• Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.

  Margaret Walker

  Love, Inspirational, Friendship

  Margaret Walker (2016). “Jubilee (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.496, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.

  Plutarch

  Friendship, Change, Philosophy

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• If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Friendship, Positive

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  Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

  Plautus

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

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  One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  Euripides

  Friendship, Positive, Family

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Life, Friendship, True Friend

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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  In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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• In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Friendship, Wisdom, Kings

  "The Trumpet of Conscience". Martin Luther King, Jr.'s steeler lecture at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• Your friend is your needs answered.

  Khalil Gibran

  Friendship, Best Friend, Needs

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Friendship, Patience

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

  Bernard Meltzer

  Friendship, Thank You, True Friend

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• When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

  E. W. Howe

  Friendship, Relationship, Patience

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• Our most difficult task as a friend is to offer understanding when we don't understand.

  Robert Breault

  Friendship, True Friend, Real

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• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Friendship, Happy

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• Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

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• There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Friendship, True Friend, Heart

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• You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Best Friend, Cute

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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  No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  Alice Walker

  Friendship, Fake Friends, Memorable

  Alice Walker (2013). “The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

  Richard Bach

  Friendship, Happiness, Wish

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• A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend.

  Aristotle

  Friendship, Relationship, True Friend

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen

  Rod McKuen

  Friendship, Strangers And Friends, Short Best Friend

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  Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

  Marcel Proust

  Friendship, Happiness, Happy

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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